Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-14
AN UNGRATEFUL REPUBLIC.

AN UNGRATEFUL REPUBLIC.
 Well, it is matter of proverbial accept | .ance that all Republics are ungrateful; that | is, in the State or States contributing to | such Republic; but it has come to be prov en in this land, that Republicans as indi- viduals have 8 participant part in the in gratitude ascribed to government. General Grant, in his lifetime, was hero of heroes; his name was worshipped by the nation as the synonym of all that was brave and brilliant; regarded as the pre- server of the Union, united people gave him a heart homage seldom accorded to humanity. This was the tribute to Grant the soldier; but when the soldier sacrificed his fame to the promptings of political ambition-when he
 -narrOwed his mind,
 And to party gave up what was meant for
 mankind
 when the associations of we'll fought fields were cast aside for the allurements of the White House, then the general ceased to be the idol of the people and became the mere tool of @ corruptionist clique 'Of the dead, nothing unless good," is an ancient maxim of charity and delicacy; and though often in the interests of the public 1t is necessary to change the mil nisl bonum" into an infexible"nil nisi verum, we do not feel disposed for the altera tion in regard of the memory of President Grant The halo of his achievement in the war is sufficient to shed light on even darker shadows than those left on his name by his career in the bureaus of governments; moulded and manipulated as that career was by the wiles of department plunder- CTS and the schemes of self-seeking adven- turers. As we have said, Grant, instead of being the hero, honestly worshipped by nation, became the fattered agent of a fulsome greed. He was confding and easily led at first; then familiarity with ways that were dark made him an adept in devious pursuits; living, he was in grateful testimony to his most pliant dispensa' tion of patronage and powers to plumber, made the recipient of what some people would call bribe; the degree of IL. D. conferred on him was interpreted into a Glover of Large Donations;" horses and houses and carriages were forced upon him in that gratitude which is described as a "lively sense of favors yet to come." But Grant was relieved of Presidential power and the worship of his votaries weakened; Grant died and was buried and the generous offerings were at end; monument by his political ad- mirers collapsed from want of popular support; the men who in his life would have spent fortunes for his smile would not spare few dollars to raise column to his memory; the Republicans disre- garded the claims of their Republican prophet and guide, and the quiet grave at Riverside, New York, had no wreath flung upon it by Republican hands An, yes Republics are ungrateful, and Re publicans in person carry out the charac- teristics.
 We have been led to these observations by a standing column in the New York ''Star' headed "The Grant Monument , What Republicans could not or would not do pronounced Democrat is doing Ex Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, the ed ltor of that paper, finds nothing inconsist -~ent with his dntJ- to perty- in taking up the neglected work of those whose special ob ligation it was; the accepted journalistic advocate of Democratic administration - he sees nothing anomalous in the idea O. raising monument to the soldier who, be fore his lapse into partisanship had helped to save the Union for Democratic rule We are proud of the Democratic effort There is nothing small in true patriotism The Star" fund is progressing slowly, bu surely, and by-and-by it will serve as
 pointed illustration of the apothegm W have opened with. It needed Democ, ati generosity to raise column to the Repub ican antagonist.